Improvement in wagon-brakes



A. B. MATTOON. WAGON BRAKE.

No. 50,145. Patented Sept. 26, 1865.

M172 als'yea I 170012702 07 U ITE STATES- A. B. MAVTTOON, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

NILES, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-BRAKES.

Figure 1 is a view of the brake proper, and

Fig. 2 the self-actin g attachment connected with the wagon pole and reach.

The nature of my invention consists in the use of double levers E N E N with pulley-fulcrums P P, attached to the cross-bar A by pivoted iron straps l) D, F F, and G G, and connecting with the brake-blocks at B B. The levers are'worked by the strap H,'attached to a a short lever passing through and pivoted to ing all friction,

the reach at S. The short lever S is worked by the. iron rod '1, which is attached at'its fartheiextremity to-the-wagon-pole, which slides back and forth between the hounds, the crosspiece working in slots at K K, Fig. 2. The revolving brake-block B turns from the wheel when the wagon is moving backward, preven t- The wheels of the wagon moviug in the opposite direction, however, in going down hill apply the brake.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The pulley-fulcrumed levers E P N E P N, the revolving brake-block B, the short single lever S, and the rod '1, combined and arranged as described.

A. B. MATTOON. Witnesses:

M. GALLY, THEODORE WALLIS. 

